English MP Admits FA Broke Promise to Germans

Amid the increasingly hyperbolic war of words between FIFA and English football, there is one voice of sanity coming out of England.

Labour MP Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green) has urged the Football Association to “show a little humility and good grace” after the loss of the 2018 Bid.

He alluded to the Gentleman’s Agreement with the Germans about the 2006 World Cup which the FA broke but also referred to the equally indecipherable process for awarding the Olympic Games which no-one in England had protested about after London won the bid.

He said that the International Olympic Committee was another “self-appointed undemocratic organisation” but nobody in England had complained about that.

Mr Godsiff put forward a Motion in the House of Commons (The UK’s Lower house) which said:

“It would be a good idea if all those individuals and organisations involved in the failed World Cup bid showed a little humility and good grace instead of whingeing and moaning about the unfairness of FIFA and the bidding process.

No allegations of unfairness were leveled by the British bid team or media against the International Olympic Committee, which is a similar self-appointed undemocratic organisation, when they awarded the 2012 Olympic Games to London.

The English football authorities were themselves accused of double-dealing and breaking promises by members of UEFA when they attempted a rival bid against Germany for the 2006 World Cup.”

The motion said the Commons “congratulates Russia and Qatar on their success in bringing World Cup football to two parts of the world which have never hosted the World Cup before”.

MP Godsiff is one of the few people in England to be brave enough to remind the population of their Football Association’s promise to Germany to support the Germans’ 2006 bid in return for support for England’s bid to host Euro 1996.

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